Shunt complications in children with myelomeningocele: Effect of timing of shunt placement - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 516-520

  Radmanesh, Farid ^a   Nejat, Farideh ^a   El Khashab, Mostafa ^b   Ghodsi, Syed Mohammad ^a   Ardebili, Hasan Eftekhar ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Infection; Malfunction; Myelomeningocele; Sequence of surgery; Shunt

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MYELOMENINGOCELE REPAIR; NERVE SURGERY; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SHUNT INFECTION; SHUNT MALFUNCTION; SHUNTING;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 67649114570     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.2.PEDS08476     Document Type: Article

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